I noticed that particularly spammy sites (ones that use Black Hat techniques, such as Keyword Stuffing & repetition of phrases, hidden text, etc) are more suited for getting used in results. Hopefully, they will adopt my suggestion of "shrinking down" the screen captures, maybe showing 6-7 individual sites at a time by using thumbnails, and not let spammy sites influence the SERP.
Your crazy if you think these are good results. They are not at all. They need some serious work, but as I have said before it is incredibly slick looking its just missing guts.
Has anybody seen the DEMO yet? this new search tool is incredible. It combines google, yahoo, craigslist, AND Ebay (among a few others) to give LOCALIZED results -5, 10, 25, 100 miles from YOUR HOUSE) in the category that you choose. It will be released within a week or 2 from now.
I think its very impressive, if it gets alot of press release it will probably gain a lot of momentum just because of its innovatic technology.
I don't think it's that hard to beat google. Google may be the best search engine ever but the thechnology that google is using to collect data is available to almost everyone. Once you start making money a little by little you will be able to hire the best to offer you the best. What all of us should do, even if google adsense is our major source of revenue, we should give a chance to new commers, you never know maybe one day a DP member will be behind a new thechnolgy that revolutionize the world. Again that's just my 2 cents.